Kennedy Harkins's List: John Steinbeck

• Nobel Prize in 1962

• ttended Stanford University intermittently between 1920 and 1926 but did not earn a degree
• worked as a manual laborer while writing, and his experiences lent authenticity

• classified as social novels dealing  with the economic problems of rural labour,
• In Dubious Battle (1936), which deals with the strikes  of the migratory fruit pickers on California plantations.
• Of Mice and Men (1937), the story of the  imbecile giant Lennie
• The Grapes of  Wrath, the story of Oklahoma tenant farmers who, unable to  earn a living from the land, moved to California where they  became migratory workers.

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